Editor’s Note: Herald-Whig Reporter Edward Husar will have a wrap-up of the group’s trip to Cuba in the Thursday, Dec. 26, Saturday, Dec. 28, edition of The Herald-Whig. Also, mark your calendars for a live web chat with the students, staff and faculty from 11:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. Monday, Jan. 13, on this blog. […]

Editor’s Note: The Culver-Stockton College group is back from their Cuba trip, but we’re still bringing you updates and photos on this blog because Jen Roberts was unable to provide daily updates during the last part of the trip due to lack of Internet access. This is her post from Dec. 10: We left Havana […]

Editor’s Note: The Culver-Stockton College group is back from their Cuba trip, but we’re still bringing you updates and photos on this blog because Jen Roberts was unable to provide daily updates during the last part of the trip due to lack of Internet access. This is her post from Dec. 9: Art, art and […]

Editor’s Note: The Culver-Stockton College group’s Internet access was cut off during the latter part of their trip, which is why Jen Roberts was unable to provide daily updates this past week. But Jen wrote daily and we will be sharing those posts with you this week. By Jen Roberts Our travel study in Cuba […]

By Jen Roberts One unavoidable fact of traveling to a country like Cuba is the uncertainty of telecommunications, which is why I haven’t been able to send as frequent or detailed updates. On Tuesday, the group left for Viñales Valley, an outstanding karst landscape on the island in which traditional methods of agriculture (notably tobacco-growing) […]

By Jen Roberts I apologize for the delay in posting. I was told that Cuba shut down access to the Internet early Sunday morning in honor of Nelson Mandela, and it just came back on Monday evening. I had thought about trying to venture out into the city in search of phone service, because I […]

By Jen Roberts Reflecting on Saturday, Dec. 7 Our first full day exploring Havana was amazing! We are all in awe of the city’s beauty. It is the most romantic place I have ever seen. Everywhere you go you see couples in love, strolling hand in hand and many times passionately embracing. The people are […]

By Jen Roberts We are finally in Cuba and I already don’t want to leave! Surprisingly, the security check point leaving Cancun, Mexico, seemed much more relaxed than in America. Once we were through we boarded our plane and after only a hour we finally arrived in Cuba. Once in the airport we headed toward […]

By Jen Roberts This is my Cuba Visa. I have one to enter Cuba and one to leave Cuba. We will not be able to keep either of them. Unexpectedly, our group was individually charged an extra $25 to leave Mexico. That’s apparently because our flight was pushed back today and you have to pay […]